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interstate commerce act
United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. -
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economic progressive reform
leaders pushed for an agenda of reform for the broken political and economic system that perpetuated the disenfranchisement of the working people. -
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. -
square deal
Theodore Roosevelt's domestic policy based on three basic ideas: protection of the consumer, control of large corporations, and conservation of natural resources. -
Pure food and drug act
preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes.
